If there wasn’t a market for gaming laptops then we would not see so many companies offering them for sale, nor frequently updating their lineups. A new machine entering the ring is the Monster 4 14″ gaming laptop from Eurocom .
Eurocom considers it to be an “ultra portable” thanks to its 14-inch form-factor. It’s actually interesting that Eurocom sent a 14″ model, as I purchased a 14″ ASUS notebook a couple of months ago and have come to appreciate the form-factor. I like 13-inch notebooks because of their overall size, and 15-inch ones because of the extra breathing room (and sometimes the addition of a numpad). 14-inch, though, meets me right in the middle, and makes not having the benefits of 13- and 15-inch notebooks easier to bear. At 4.4lbs, the Monster 4 isn’t as light as most Ultrabooks, but this isn’t an Ultrabook: it’s a mobile workhorse.
A Look At The Hardware
| Eurocom Monster 4 Gaming Notebook | |
| Processor | Intel Core i7-6700HQ Quad-core @ 2.6GHz 3.50GHz Turbo; 6MB L3 Cache; HyperThreading |
| Motherboard | Eurocom Monster 4 (HM170) |
| Memory | 16GB (8GBx2) (19-15-15 @ DDR4-2133) |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 530 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3GB |
| Display | LG Philips LP140WF3-SPD1 (14.0″, 1080p) |
| Storage | Micron M600 128GB M.2 SSD HGST HTS541010A7E630 1TB (5400 RPM) |
| Optical | N/A |
| Audio | Realtek ALC892 & Intel HDMI |
| Wireless | Killer Wireless 802.11n/ac 1535 & Bluetooth 4.1 |
| Connectivity | 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 4x USB 3.0 3 Audio Ports 1x Ethernet Card Reader |
| Et cetera | 13.74mm x 9.72″ x 1″ 4.4 lbs 3-cell 45Wh Battery Kensington Lock |
